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Ch. 18 - In Defense Of The Work Of Art: I And Thou In Music Education, Øivind Varkøy

The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education

A change has been going on in both the philosophy of music education and the general philosophy of music during the last decades: a transition from a focus on music as an object or work to a focus on music as an activity and process. This certainly contrasts with the historical hegemony of the (Western) idea of music as objects. As a philosophical development this is unproblematic. However, a fundamental prerequisite for moving encounters between the human subject and music, in music education as well as in general, is the very idea of music as a work of art. This …